Generally, episodes of the Pokémon anime air on Saturday and/or Sunday mornings on '''MTV3''', a Finnish commercial TV channel.

Generally, episodes of the Pokémon anime air on Saturday and/or Sunday mornings on '''MTV3''', a Finnish commercial TV channel.

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''[[Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Battle Dimension]]'' has aired in Finnish on [[Jetix]]. When Jetix was replaced by Disney XD, Disney XD began to show reruns of ''Battle Dimension'' as well. Disney XD has also aired the [[M10|tenth]], [[M11|eleventh]] and [[M12|twelfth]] movies.

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''[[Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Battle Dimension]]'' has aired in Finnish on Jetix. When Jetix was replaced by Disney XD, Disney XD began to show reruns of ''Battle Dimension'' as well. Disney XD has also aired the [[M10|tenth]], [[M11|eleventh]] and [[M12|twelfth]] movies.

MTV3's net-TV known as '''Katsomo''' started to upload the 11th season beginning on 11 May 2010 and finished the season in July 2010. New episodes were downloaded Mon-Fri by 18:00.

MTV3's net-TV known as '''Katsomo''' started to upload the 11th season beginning on 11 May 2010 and finished the season in July 2010. New episodes were downloaded Mon-Fri by 18:00.

Unlike the anime, all Pokémon games sold in Finland are in English. They have been released at the same time with rest of Europe, except for Pokémon Platinum. All games have their instruction booklet translated into both Finnish and Swedish.

MTV3's net-TV known as Katsomo started to upload the 11th season beginning on 11 May 2010 and finished the season in July 2010. New episodes were downloaded Mon-Fri by 18:00.

The 12th season started to be broadcast by MTV3 in September 2010, and finished on August 6th 2011. Katsomo started to upload the 13th season since 18 April 2011 and finished on August 11th 2011. New episodes were uploaded Mondays and Thursdays by 18:00.

Like some other European channels, MTV3 showed the first two episodes of Black and White as a "sneak peek" before the seasons actual airing. These episodes were shown on 22nd and 25 April, respectively. The season officially started airing on August 13, 2011.

MTV3 Juniori has started to return the first ten seasons of the series since the 12th of April 2010. Currently it's broadcasting the reruns of Pokémon: Advanced season.

The current logo of the TV channel MTV3 Juniori

Many episodes were not shown in Finland for unknown reasons. The entire second season was skipped and only about a half of the Johto Journeys, Johto League Champions and the last 12 episodes of Master Quest were shown. This happened also to Pokémon Advanced, as only the first 26 episodes were shown.

This changed during the Advanced Challenge season, as it was the first ever season to be shown completely in Finland. Every season after that have been broadcast in their entirety as well.

A unique feature of the Finnish dub (and other Nordic dubs) is that the names of Pokémon moves have been left in English. This hasn't always been the case, but this came into effect when the season 10 was aired in Finland. The reasons behind the change are a bit hazy, but it has been assumed that this is because the Pokémon games and TCG are published in English in Finland as well. At the same time, it has been inconsistent whether Abilities are translated or not.

Cast and Crew

In the Finnish dub, several different voice actors have appeared. Sari Moilanen was the original voice actress for Ash Ketchum in first and third seasons and the first four movies, though now he is voiced by Hanna Leino. Kiti Kokkonen the most recent voice actress of Misty, and also Jessie's voice actress in some seasons before season eleven, though both of these characters have had a few other voice actresses in some point: Misty has also been voiced by Outi Alanen, Marjut Heikkinen and Pauliina Virta, while Jessie has been voiced by Mari Laari, Karolina Blom and Susa Saukko. Kiti Kokkonen has, though, also been the first of Misty's voice actresses.

Veli-Matti Ranta is James's original voice actor. Other voice actors for James are Anssi Känsälä, Antti Jaakkola, Saku Mäkynen and Peter Philström, who is his current voice actor. Meowth has been voiced by Pauli Virta and currently, Arto Nieminen.

May has been voiced by Aksa Korttila, while Elise Langenoja has voiced Max. Mirjami Heikkinen is the voice actress for Dawn, while Iris's voice actress is Saara Aalto. Cilan is voiced by Petrus Kähkönen, who has voiced minor characters before. Gary Oak has been voiced by Pasi Ruohonen, among other voice actors. For some time at the beginning of the series, Gary shared the same voice actor with his grandfather Professor Oak.

Pokémon merchandise

Pokémon Trading Card Game

Many card sets of Pokémon Trading Card Game, starting with Base Set, have been sold in Finland in many different kiosks and convenience stores. Lehtipiste stores, the most common being R-Kioski, are known as one of the most reliable places to find Pokémon Trading Cards. Theme Decks are also sold in Finland.

The cards sold in Finland are in English, and the price of one booster pack is typically around five or six Euros.

Pokémon manga

No Pokémon manga has officially been translated into Finnish. Some series, published by Viz Media, are sold in English by Fantasiapelit, a company that also has other Pokémon merchandise, such as TCG cards, in their product range.